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Æ in Helvetica and Bodoni. Æ alone and in context. Æ ( lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
Umlaut (diacritic) Umlaut ( / ˈʊmlaʊt /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ] ).
In the romanization of Nanjing Mandarin, Ä stands for [ɛ] . The sign at the bus station of the Finnish town Mynämäki, illustrating an artistic variation of the letter Ä. In the Nordic countries, the vowel sound [æ] was originally written as "Æ" when Christianisation caused the former Vikings to start using the Latin alphabet around A.D ...
Danish and Norwegian alphabet. The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish): The letters c , q , w , x and z are not used in the spelling of indigenous words.
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω ( diakrínō, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used ...
Unlike letters with diacritics like à , ë , í , etc. æ and ø are not easily available on Swedish keyboards, and are thus often replaced with ä and ö . The news agency TT follows this usage because some newspapers have no technical support for æ and ø , [ 12 ] although there is a recommendation to use æ and ø .
The ligatures æ and œ were introduced when the sounds became monophthongs, and later applied to words not of Greek origin, in both Latin (for example, cœli) and French (for example, œuvre). In English, which has adopted words from all three languages, it is now usual to replace Æ/æ with Ae/ae and Œ/œ with Oe/oe.
The letter eth (Ð ð) was later devised as a modification of dee (D d), and finally yogh (Ȝ ȝ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular g in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian g. The a-e ligature ash (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune æsc.